Jamal Variste accepted a guilty plea Friday after his charge was reduced from second-degree murder to manslaughter. He is sentenced to serve 35 years in prison. He will be 43-years-old when he is released.

The shooting happened at the Spanish Arms Apartments in February 2014.

Variste and the victim, 18-year-old Devonta Jenks, were both, at one point, involved in a relationship with the same woman. The woman was pregnant with Jenks child.

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Louisiana spent nearly $35,000 on private attorneys to respond to the sexual harassment lawsuit against former Secretary of State Tom Schedler, boosting the state’s costs in the litigation to $184,000.